i can assure you it does work. You may have a poorly designed SATA I controller which requires the jumper to be set on the back of the HDD, but most of the time you dont need to bother and it just works.

i can assure you it does work. You may have a poorly designed SATA I controller which requires the jumper to be set on the back of the HDD, but most of the time you dont need to bother and it just works.

Some sata2 drives state that they will work with sata 1 but don't even have a jumper. The only problems i had a few years ago with old sata chipsets was mixing up hardrives, IDE + Sata = nope. I now do the same on me new mobo and all works fine.

older SSD's would get up there and new SSD's are near the SATA3 max speed. But Disc type HDD's are still pretty slow in comparison. you's want SATA2 for any disc HDD since they're faster than SATA1 can handle. Somehow i know all this but cant figure out (with out help) if SATA3 drives work with SATA2 motherboards